The Titanic Exhibit on the Eve of the 113th Anniversary of the Sinking.

The Traveling Titanic Exhibit is only in town until the end of April. So let's visit the exhibit on the Seattle Waterfront on Monday, April 14th at high noon. Advanced tickets are required and can be purchased at this link:

https://titanicexhibition.com/seattle/

The Titanic actually hit the berg at 11:40 PM (8:40 PM Seattle PDT) on April 14th. It sank on April 15th at 2:20 AM Ship's Time (11:20 PM April 14th, Seattle PDT).

There were 705 survivors, including two passengers headed for Seattle. There were six people on board with connections to King County, Washington. William Harbeck, Seattle resident, moving picture producer and cameraman, was on the Titanic as its official filmmaker.

https://www.historylink.org/file/1050#:~:text=There%20are%20705%20survivors%2C%20including,Titanic%20as%20its%20official%20filmmaker.

For my money, the most historically accurate dramatization of the sinking is the 1958 British movie "A Night to Remember" which is free online at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIQR2-iLMkU

I wonder why the Titanic still captures our imaginations. Three things come to mind: The Titanic with it's three social strata neatly separated from each other (First Class, Second Class, steerage) seems a metaphor for all humanity nicely collected in one single traveling ship in a vast empty ocean--just like the planet earth traveling in a vast empty solar system. Then there's the hubris of building an "unsinkable" ship--this of course will anger the gods, just as did attempting to build a tower up to Heaven. And finally there is the tragedy of the whole thing being avoidable if only the Californian and its disinterested Captain Lord had only cared a little. Yup, the Titanic has got it all. If anyone has their own ideas and theories, please post them in the comments section below. Thanks.

See you then!
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